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Informationen zum Autor Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic, popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and European honorary doctorates. He received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1953, his Ph.D. from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1961, and Rabbinical Ordination and the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960. Neusner is editor of the 'Encyclopedia of Judaism' (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; Chair of the Editorial Board of 'The Review of Rabbinic Judaism,' and Editor in Chief of 'The Brill Reference Library of Judaism', both published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of 'Studies in Judaism', University Press of America. Neusner resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and two grandsons. Klappentext This book surveys the treatment of war and peace in the canon of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity: to what does Judaism refer when it speaks of war and peace in the context of the Hebrew words "milhamah" (war) and "shalom" (peace)? Zusammenfassung This book surveys the treatment of war and peace in the canon of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity: to what does Judaism refer when it speaks of war and peace in the context of the Hebrew words "milhamah" (war) and "shalom" (peace)? Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Preface Part 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The Mishnah Chapter 4 The Tosefta Chapter 5 Sifra Chapter 6 Sifré to Numbers and Sifré Zutta to Numbers Chapter 7 Sifré to Deuteronomy Chapter 8 Mekhilta Attributed to R. Ishmael Chapter 9 Genesis Rabbah Chapter 10 Leviticus Rabbah Chapter 11 Pesiqta deRab Kahana Chapter 12 Song of Songs Rabbah Chapter 13 Lamentations Rabbah Chapter 14 Ruth Rabbah Chapter 15 Esther Rabbah I Chapter 16 Fathers According to R. Nathan Chapter 17 Yerushalmi Berakhot and the Division of Zeraim Chapter 18 Yerushalmi Moed Chapter 19 Yerushalmi Nashim Chapter 20 Yerushalmi Neziqin and Tractate Niddah Chapter 21 Bavli Tractate Berakhot and the Division of Moed Chapter 22 Bavli Nashim Chapter 23 Bavli Neziqin Chapter 24 Bavli Division of Qodoshim and Tractate Niddah Chapter 25 War in the Halakhah, Peace in the Aggadah...
